Thuy had defied her parents’ wish to stay away from Le in violation of Vietnamese customs and failed to graduate from high school.

But ultimately the deaths of the young couple and a friend Duong Huang Do, 32, at an apartment at 7000 W. Nevada St. on Nov. 11, 1995 may have stemmed from unrequieted love, according to Lakewood police.

Lakewood police said that they ruled out the possibility that the murders were tied to drug or gang involvement.

The bodies of Nguyen, 21, Le, 20, and Do were discovered in Do’s apartment that Saturday morning. Each of the bodies were found in different rooms. They were all shot to death. All three victims were Vietnamese immigrants.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.